Amena Saleem | 11/22/2013 – 19:08 | Electronic Intifada In April this year, the BBC’s Director-General Tony Hall gave assurances to members of Parliament about the BBC’s impartiality when covering Palestine. He also told MPs that the BBC’s complaints process, headed by the BBC Trust, provides adequate checks and balances. However, some of the BBC’s […]

Al Ray Agencies | Nov 3, 2013 Gaza, ALRAY – Israeli occupation forces committed 13 violations against Palestinian journalists during last October , Government Media Office(GMO) reported. According to the monthly report of the GMO, the Israeli troops arrested seven journalists and cameramen in the West Bank. In addition to that the Israeli court confirmed […]

Maan News Agency | Sept 28, 2013 16:13 Israeli soldiers arrest Palestinians during military operation in the West Bank city of Nablus, January 7, 2007. (MaanImages/Rami Swidan) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Saturday detained Ratib al-Jubour, coordinator of a popular committee against Israel’s separation wall and settlement activities in south Hebron area. According to […]

Originally posted on Sally Idwedar: A Life in Gaza: Agence France-Presse has recently posted a info-graphic on discrimination against women. The info-graphic caption: In 15 countries, women can’t get a job without their husband’s permission. Wow- how horrible is it that a woman must get her husband’s permission to work! Included in the 15 countries…

OpEdNews | Sept 21, 2013 As part of an ongoing series of interviews for the radio show “Le Mur a Des Oreilles; conversations for Palestine,” Frank Barat talks to John Pilger, one of the most influencial journalist of the last few decades, about the war in Syria, the colonization of Palestine, the relationship between the corporate media […]

[ PIC 07/09/2013 – 11:14 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) accused the PA forces of forcing detained journalists to reveal their emails and social profiles passwords during investigation. MADA monitored during the past 20 months attacks on journalists for expressing their opinion on Facebook, and some journalists […]

Middle East Monitor | Sept 2, 2013 Israeli mass media broadcast on Monday morning the operetta “Blessed are the Hands” to hail the Egyptian military forces that carried out the coup in Egypt last month. Israel’s Channel 2 TV broadcast the operetta after Egyptian military bulldozers razed residential houses in the Egyptian Rafah in […]

Tuesday August 27, 2013 10:12 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday morning [August 27, 2013], a Palestinian social activist, head of the Palestinian Youth Association for Leadership and Rights Activation (PYALARA) after heading to the Erez Israeli terminal in an attempt to obtain a permit to head to the […]

Ma’an News Agency | Aug 25, 2013 JENIN (Ma’an) — The family of a Palestinian journalist who was kidnapped 16 months ago in the Philippines on Friday appealed to rights organizations to do more for his release. Baker Atyani, Al-Arabiya’s TV bureau chief for Southeast Asia, was kidnapped in June 2012 by the Abu […]

Ma’an News Agency | Aug 20, 2013 (Developments are updated below this post) SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — A researcher who hacked into Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg’s profile to expose a security flaw won’t get the customary reward payment from the social network. While Facebook offers rewards for those who find security holes, it seems that […]

Monday August 19, 2013 00:28 by Celine Hagbard – IMEMC News Danny Seaman, who recently became the head of Israel’s ‘Internet Hasbara (Hebrew for Propaganda)’ branch of the government, has been issued a warning by the Netanyahu administration for a series of racist and offensive postings against Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims and Japanese people on his […]